Mat Kendrick's Dentist

Ramsey, Chuk and Barry seem to be a lot closer to first team level than JPB any time I've seen them. They're all younger than him too

Pure cack

On 06/04/2021 at 21:43, HanoiVillan said:

Always glad to see a non-Oxbridge team win University Challenge, even if Rout managed to forget his own teammate's name at one point.

Great season. I actually thought that was a moment of genius from Rout (one of many) to waste time to ensure they held onto their lead!

1 hour ago, useless said:

Filip Marschall, Aaron Ramsey, Chukwuemeka, and Barry have all been named in the latest England U18 squad,Kesler and Philogene-Bidace are with the U19s. Tyreik Wright and Sinisalo also been called up to the Ireland and Finland U21 teams.

Shame the Euro U19 Championship has been cancelled this summer. Always a great tournament

22 hours ago, thabucks said:

Is Kempf Engels 4th choice good or rival for konsa good ? Heard is could be on the brink of a call up to the Germany squad ... Hopefully something in these links 

He's a lot better than Engels. Plays in a back 3 at Stuttgart.....He'd be good competition for both of our first-choice CBs I would say

25 minutes ago, thabucks said:

I’ve been told from someone within the game that we have been scouting and/or targeting two German based defenders: 

Apparently we’ve scouted Marc-Oliver Kempf a CB from VFB Stuttgart not sure if there is anymore to that ...

https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/player/marc-oliver-kempf/profile

And we are also (apparently) very interested in/have made enquiries regarding Ismail Jakobs LW/LB from FC Koln 

https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/player/ismail-jakobs/profile

He  reminds me a lot of Marty Cash LW moved back to FB and is being targeted by Leicester and Brighton also...

BTW I’m not ITK... I used to hear snippets but been a few years out of the game, it’s drying up and any Villa news comes second hand via Europe so must be treated so ... just thought I’d share. 

Kempf is good, Jakobs not so much

Chuk and Barry a cut above again today. Good sign at 17

2-2 Ramsay

3 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Was it a corner or a throw?

Corner mate

Brad Young has done more in 2 minutes than either of our wide players did in 70

3 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

2-1 to Burnley - not sure if anyone touched it and it's gone in from the throw in. Possibly should have been disallowed but it could have taken a touch off just about anyone.

If Burnley want this, they'll score a few more. We can't get out of our half.

Not sure what we can do, I don't think there's a midfielder on the bench.

Straight in from a corner

Comical goal Burnley

Barry playing really well. Think his cross that led to the goal was going on target, in which case it's his goal. Just had one disallowed there too which didn't look offside at all

A few dodgy hairbands on show today

31 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said:

Just paid up on villaTV

£1.99, great value

Interested to see Barry again and to see if the Burnley kids play the Burnley way.

Stupid question, but how?! It won't let me click on it...

41 minutes ago, Zatman said:

I think he is 2 from Freidels record

1 off it now I believe! Think we got 19 clean sheets one season in the late 90s but that was shared across 2 keepers

33 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

My main concern is that we've only had one particularly good half of football (Burnley 1st half) since we've come back from Covid.

We were totally on top in both halves vs Newcastle

Should have kept faith with Jed Steer. Signing a keeper wasn't a priority

13 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

It came far too late imo, but we don't know how ready Stansted has looked in training.

I don't want to see Barkley starting next week, that's for sure.

True. He hasn't really had the chance to take off yet. Hopefully he has good people around him and not too many hangars-on. I'm sure if we give him time he'll be flying. 

2 minutes ago, bobzy said:

Constant cheap fouls around the area.  Constantly just giving the ball away.  It was an awful performance.

Nonsense. He made 3 or 4 goal-saving blocks in the penalty area, and intercepted countless cut-backs to the edge of the box. McGinn and Barkley had far more poor passes too

4 minutes ago, bobzy said:

Woeful.  Again.

He really wasn't. By far our best midfielder today

Romain Faivre, please

Horrendous

2 hours ago, ender4 said:

Ross McCormack to whoever we bought to replace him

12 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

I feel that the two threads of title race and relegation race are sadly and happily not going to apply to us - we're not winning the league and we aren't going down.

We ate definitely in the mix for Europe, an amazing achievement to be saying that in February.

Man City look to be running away with the league and everyone from 2nd downwards are having huge blips in form.

Usually, top 4 qualify for the champions league.

3 europa league places go to 5th place, fa cup winners and league cup winners.

If the cup winners are in the top 5, those two extra spots would go to 6th and 7th place.

I may be wrong on this, but an extra team will quslify for the european conference league - happy to be corrected.

Is it doable? Could we be on a european tour next year?

The 3rd Europa League spot now goes to the Uefa Conference League (great name), so there are still only 7 European spots. Hopefully we nab one, whichever tournament it is